Commanders of 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, composed a symphony of rockets, mortars, artillery and bullets during a fire coordination exercise at Yakima Training Center May 22, 2011.

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A National Guard specialist rescued dozens of people trapped in a collapsed Wal-Mart store following a deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., May 22, 2011.

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Staff Sgt. Johnathan Vines and his Soldiers put themselves through the “Gauntlet,” an intense circuit training with a variety of exercises designed to work out the entire body.

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Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team members, government officials, school children and villagers attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Perengal School in Dara district, Afghanistan, May 17, 2011.

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Coalition and Afghan national security forces concluded Operation Maiwan III in eastern Afghanistan, May 19, 2011, which eliminated insurgents and denied them safe havens from which to launch attacks, while showing the Afghan population that International Security Assistance Forces and Afghan forces can and will conduct operations anytime, even in remote areas near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.

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Flanked by the memorials of wars past, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today said he has had no greater honor than serving and leading the U.S. military.

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President Barack Obama announced his choice of Gen. Martin E. Dempsey as chairman and Navy Adm. James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld, Jr. as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a Rose Garden ceremony today.

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The Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF) has helped their Afghan partners undertake an operation in an insurgent stronghold of Helmand that has resulted in a substantial weapons find and a number of insurgents being detained.

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Amongst those travelling to Japan to help with the recent crisis following the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant was a UK military Radiation Monitoring Team (RMT).

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It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Lieutenant Oliver Richard Augustin and Marine Samuel Giles William Alexander MC, both from Juliet Company 42 Commando Royal Marines, were killed in Afghanistan on Friday 27 May 2011.

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